A California city council scheduled a vote on banning dihydrogen monoxide before someone realized they’d be outlawing water. Dihydrogen monoxide is one of the many Internet hoaxes that can mislead surfers (and journalists) lacking modern literacy skills.
In a related story, this week’s Google hype article quotes the Librarian of Congress with this haughty pronouncement: "Google can be useful as a starting point to research or for superficial inquests, but far too often, it is a gateway to illiterate chatter, propaganda and blasts of unintelligible material."
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